What is meld score in end stage liver disease?

Cirrhosis scale: Score output from an equation that rates severity of liver malfunction that includes bilirubin (waste product cleared by liver), INR (blood clotting factors made by liver), and creatinine (how well kidneys are working). Higher scores are bad. It is used mostly at transplant centers to get livers to the sickest patients. http://bit.ly/utsbef.

3 mos mortality risk: Used to prioritize allocation of deceased donor organs for liver transplantation. Meld is a prospectively developed and validated chronic liver disease severity scoring system that uses a patient's laboratory values for serum bilirubin, serum creatinine, and the international normalized ratio for prothrombin time (inr) to predict survival.